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Peer reviewedJohnson, Richard W. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1972
Use of two types of scales in combination helps the counselor identify aspects of an occupational interest pattern that the client does or does not share with members of an occupational group. (Author)
Descriptors: Interest Inventories, Interests, Males, Vocational Interests
Peer reviewedJohnson, Richard W. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1972
The item content of the empirical (Occupational and Nonoccupational) schales on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank for Men was described by means of the 22 categories formed by the new Basic Interest scales. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Content Analysis, Interest Inventories, Males
Peer reviewedJohnson, Richard W. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1974
The content of each of the Occupational and Nonoccupational scales on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank for Women was described in terms of the categories used for the Basic Interest scales. Several shortcomings of the SVIB-W were noted. (Author)
Descriptors: Females, Item Analysis, Occupational Aspiration, Test Construction
Peer reviewedJohnson, Richard W. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1971
Scores on scales with identical or similar names on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank for Women and the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey were compared by means of both scale and profile analyses. The individual scales were only moderately intercorrelated; however, the total profiles revealed substantial agreement for most subjects. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Interests, Personality
Peer reviewedJohnson, Richard W. – Journal of Applied Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Attitudes, Comparative Testing, Females, Individual Differences
Johnson, Richard W.; And Others – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1978
The Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory profiles for female and male pharmacy students were compared. Female and male students obtained similar interest patterns when separate norms for men and women were used. (Author)
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Higher Education, Interest Inventories, Pharmacists
PDF pending restorationPrediger, Dale J.; Johnson, Richard W. – 1979
Recent research is summarized on interest assessment procedures as it bears on the issue of sex restrictiveness. Studies documenting sex restrictiveness in widely used interest inventories are cited, and alternatives to sex-restrictive interest assessment are suggested. Separate consideration is given to basic interest scales and to occupational…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, High Schools, Higher Education, Interest Inventories
Johnson, Richard W.; St. John, David E. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1970
The MVII appears to be an effective instrument for differentiating student career interests. The Study of Values was relatively unsuccessful among these students. The student's choice of a career appears to be more closely related to what he likes than to what he believes to be important or valuable. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Community Colleges, Educational Planning, Interest Inventories
Download full textJohnson, Richard W. – 1969
For a heterogeneous sample, the correlation coefficients between the Basic Interest Scales and the Occupational Scales and between the Basic Interest Scales and the Nonoccupational Scales of the Strong Vocational Interest Bland for Women (SVIB-W) are presented. Although the pattern of intercorrelations may be somewhat different for other samples,…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Correlation, Counseling
Johnson, Richard W.; Schwertfeger, Margaret – 1971
The correlation coefficients between the new basic interest scales and the traditional empirical (occupational and nonoccupational) scales on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank for Men were determined for a diverse sample of 155 males. In most cases, the relationships were logical and easy to understand. In some cases, however, the relationships…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Correlation
Peer reviewedJohnson, Richard W. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1979
Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory items which differentiated between males and females by more than nine percentage points were removed in an attempt to develop a unisex occupational scale for pharmacists. The remaining items formed a unisex scale nearly as reliable and valid as the original, over short term periods. (MH)
Descriptors: Females, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Interest Inventories
